Blog entries for "General"

( 3 Dec 2016 ) In its meeting today, the Supervisory Board of the Salzburg Festival made important decisions regarding the institution’s future.“Helga Rabl-Stadler will remain Festival President for another three years; her contract was extended until September 30, 2020,” Dr. Wilfried Haslauer announced as the legal representative of the Salzburg Festival Fund on December 2, 2016.

( 10 Nov 2016 ) What should an arts festival be? This is a question that occupied the initiators of the Salzburg Festival in their efforts to create a unique dramaturgy for Salzburg when they presented their memorandum on the founding of the Salzburg Festival almost exactly a hundred years ago.We have set out to rethink and develop further the great ideas of our founding fathers Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Max Reinhardt.

( 31 Aug 2016 )
Altogether, 46 opera
performances were on the programme: three new productions, two revivals, one restaging,
one revival from the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and three concert performances
formed the 2016 opera offerings.
Compared to last
summer, 12,000 opera tickets more were on sale – a record topped only during
the Mozart Year 2006.

( 31 Aug 2016 )
The completely
sold-out drama programme was also extremely successful, featuring three new
productions, the revival of Jedermann,
the staged melodrama Requiem für Ernst
Jandl and two readings of selected works by Thomas Bernhard.

( 31 Aug 2016 )
81 concerts were presented at the 2016 Salzburg Festival. As in recent years, the Ouverture
spirituelle opened the Festival, exploring Eastern Christianity in
2016. Five sold-out concerts offered a portrayal of this highly diverse vocal
music.

( 20 Aug 2016 ) The economy and the Salzburg Festival? This is often reduced to mere “indirect profitability” benefiting the state. However, as the world’s leading festival of music and theatre, the Salzburg Festival creates far more than mere fiscal effects – as the centre of an organically grown economic ecosystem, it fulfils many functions and affects Salzburg profoundly as a location for business and companies.

( 13 Aug 2016 )
Festival
President Helga Rabl-Stadler received a medal of the Republic of Italy today.
She received the “Grande Ufficiale dell’ordine della Stella d’Italia” in the
presence of Maestro Riccardo Muti after his concert with the Vienna
Philharmonic. The medal was presented by the Ambassador of the Republic of
Italy in Vienna, H. E. Giorgio Marrapodi.

( 7 Aug 2016 ) During the Award Concert Weekend 2016, the 27-year-old Aziz Shokhakimov from Uzbekistan convinced the international jury chaired by Dennis Russell Davies in a concert with soloist Mingjie Lei and the Camerata Salzburg at the Mozarteum Foundation.

( 6 Aug 2016 ) If you want to take a piece of the Salzburg Festival home with you, you are in good hands
with Andreas Vogl and his team. At the Festival Shop you will find CDs recorded
by the artists you have admired on stage at the Festival – or whom you may have
missed, and still want to hear!